André Wobst venit, vidit, dixit 07.12.2011 23:32: > Hi Michael, > > Am 07.12.2011 um 23:07 schrieb Michael SCHINDLER: >> when writing the PFB, it will also spit out an AFM file which you >> can convert into a TFM if you like (afm2tfm from texlive). It >> worked fine for me when converting TTF fonts into PFB for use in >> latex. > > I guess this will result in a similar approximation for the font > information required according to the PDF spec. PyX does such an > approximation as well, but tell you about it. It is a warning, and to > my mind this is better to warn the user about this issue than to do > this approximation silently (like pdftex does it; it does pretty much > the same approximation but does not give you any hint about it). > Furthermore PyX supports (and tries) to properly collect this > information from the AFM file.
Wow, that is quite some news. What does this mean for commercial fonts which are sold without the afm, but specifically to be used with TeX? MTPro2 is meant to produce high quality type setting with LaTeX, and is used by some journals, for example. Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Cloud Services Checklist: Pricing and Packaging Optimization This white paper is intended to serve as a reference, checklist and point of discussion for anyone considering optimizing the pricing and packaging model of a cloud services business. Read Now! http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51491232/ _______________________________________________ PyX-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pyx-user
